Once More Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFGAHIHJJ KLKLMM NONOPP QRQRSS TB TUVV WXWXYY| I had not thought again to be | A |
| A dreamer of such dreams as these | B |
| The springtime is no more for me | A |
| My summer died beyond the seas | B |
| From what untimely source begin | C |
| These stirrings of the life within | C |
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| I had not thought again to taste | D |
| The bitter sweet the joyous pain | E |
| I dreamed that I had trodden waste | D |
| Beyond the power of sun or rain | E |
| The soil that grew the passion fruit | F |
| Then whence this blossom underfoot | G |
| I had not thought again to see | A |
| Beyond the homely pale of truth | H |
| The lights and shapes of witchery | I |
| That glorify the skies of youth | H |
| I only know as perished things | J |
| Whence then this flash of angel wings | J |
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| How spend the day yet save the hours | K |
| I had my day the hours are fled | L |
| How eat the fruit yet hold the flowers | K |
| I ate the fruit the flowers are dead | L |
| Oh what divine or fiendish art | M |
| Hath twined fresh tendrils round my heart | M |
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| I said 'tis good to be alone | N |
| No alien hand to urge or check | O |
| I said my spirit is my own | N |
| To loose or bind to save or wreck | O |
| I trod on Love called Reason lord | P |
| Lo whence this subtle silken cord | P |
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| Oh who shall tell if this be strength | Q |
| Re risen or ghost of old defect | R |
| The truth of manhood come at length | Q |
| Or weakness born of purpose wrecked | R |
| I only know it is the whole | S |
| Arch craving of a hungry soul | S |
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| I only know that all the hordes | T |
| Of buried hopes and jealousies | B |
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| Are risen again and crossing swords | T |
| And that 'twas but an armistice | U |
| A breathing time 'twixt strife and strife | V |
| Which I had deemed a peace for life | V |
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| Oh who can tell where duty lies | W |
| To urge repress advance or stay | X |
| To grasp at Good in Beauty's guise | W |
| Or brush the pretty lure away | X |
| Ere doubtful war of hopes and fears | Y |
| Consume the hoarded strength of years | Y |
James Brunton Stephens
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